Said No One Ever

Kids are scared of the dark. And monsters. Also loud noises. What was the most illogical thing you were scared of when you were a kid?

Monsters look different as we age. Things like the boogeyman are replaced by monsters like fear, doubt, rejection, or shame. Which monster is the toughest for you to face? Why?

Read Numbers 13:31-33
“We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

Have you had a “descendants of Anak” moment where a problem seemed too big to possibly handle? What happened?

Later in the story, we see a different take on the same land. Read it in Numbers 14:7-9:
“The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land. If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’ Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them.”

What difference do you see in these two different takes on the same land? Why are they different?

Bonus ridiculous question!
The promised land was said to be flowing with milk and honey. If your land was flowing with two liquids right now, what would they be?

Finally, is there a place right now where God is telling you to “Go?” How do you know?